Potential Titles: Lethe

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A thousand Persephones lie bleeding in the Lethe - Mike Allen "Machine Guns Loaded with Pomegranate Seeds"

Flagons full of cool Lethean spray - Benjamin West Ball "Invocation"

In draughts from Lethe's chalice - Benjamin West Ball "Threnody"

This little bit of Lethe water - Mary Jo Bang "A Place"

Through which no blood but brackish Lethe seeps - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard

Lingering by Lethe's tideless void - Lucius Beebe "Corydon"

They've stopped the Lethe, down in Hell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"

Lethe is for no man set - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

And Leathe's wick tide takes that, too - CM Burroughs "I am Warm, I Know Nothing"

And come to Lethe's bank - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

Whispering shades on Lethe's shore - Walter de la Mare "The Dreamer"

The wandering thought from Lethe's shores - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Introduction"

Laugh and dream on Lethe's shore - Michael Field "[It was deep April, and the morn]"

Lethean poppies, shrivelling ashen grey - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson "Rupert Brooke"

Upset your darts in Lethe's river - Oliver Herford "The Heart of Ice"

Across the Lethe of the years - Aldous Huxley "Books and Thoughts"

As Lethe coils around a dream - Charles Edwin Jakeway "An Unfinished Prophecy"

Where Lethe glides against the sand - Lionel Johnson "A Cornish Night"

Of mouths that drink from Lethe - Fady Joudah "Year of the Metal Dog"

A dream of Lethe - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Lethe"

See in Lethe's crowded domes ashes of his hecatombs - Mrs S. Anna Lewis "The Angel's Visit"" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

The weed from Lethe wharf - James Russell Lowell "To C. F. Bradford on the Gift of a Meerschaum Pipe"

Oblivion, from streams of Lethe borne - E.M. "The Lathe of Morpheus: A Dream Song/A tribute to B.C. from E.M."

One lethed hour that duty never brings - Florence Ripley Mastin "Moth Moon"

And told how Lethe's banks are filled - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems II: An Afternoon Soliloquy"

Catch crabs in Lethe's flood - Friedrich Schiller "The Journalists and Minos"

Engaged with anxious care in pumping Lethe out - Friedrich Schiller "The Journalists and Minos"

When I have crossed dark Lethe's river - Friedrich Schiller "Klopstock and Wieland"

Lethe I dream your forgetting - Alexandra Seidel "Cerberus, Seeking Lethe"

Whose eyes have looked on Lethe - Clark Ashton Smith "Ave Atque Vale"

On the shore beside the Lethe - Maura Stanton "Wander Indiana"

Quaff the calm Lethean wave - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"

Through sullen Lethe's iron gate - "Superior Nonsense Verses"

Have drunken of Lethe at length - Algernon Swinburne "In Harbour"

Buried deep in Lethe's magic pool - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Where lethe laps the wharf of sleeping streams - Iris Tree "[Winding down the streets in wearied gaiety]"

Into the drowsy fields of Lethe - Henry Vaughan "To My Ingenious Friend, R. W."

As they glide off up to Lethe - Jo Walton "Hades and Persephone"

No footbridge or boat over Lethe - Charles Wright "Bees Are the Terrace Builders of the Stars"


Poured with tender love her healing Lethe-balm - Emma Lazarus "Fog" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.20, Aug. 1877]


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